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The Middle Frame And Medieval Narratology, Faten Morris Isshak

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Translation As Interpretation: Siegfried Lenz' "Motivsuche", John F. Disterheft

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It is the purpose of this thesis to show that literary interpretation and translation are closely interrelated, that the translator cannot pursue his goal, the transfer of a work of literature from one language into another, without interpreting that work as literature.

Westminster Abbey Wreath-Laying

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

June 1990 marked the tenth anniversary of the unveiling of the memorial stone to George Eliot in Poets' Corner. The anniversary service was held as closely in content as possible to the one ten years earlier and our Guest of Honour was the Revd. Dr. EDW ARD CARPENTER K.C. V.O. who, as Dean of Westminster in 1980, conducted our service on that important day and had also been very much a part of our negotiations with the Abbey long before the project came to fruition. We have affectionate memories of our association with him during that time and it was …

Wreath-Laying In The George Eliot Memorial Gardens, Nuneaton On June 17th 1990, Hilda Gunn

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

I count it a great honour to be here to pay tribute to George Eliot and especially as it is shortly to be the Diamond Jubilee of the Fellowship, founded by the late Francis Cross in 1930.

I cannot claim to be the oldest member, either in years or in length of membership, but my first introduction to George Eliot the novelist goes back even more than sixty years. As a jubilee is not only a time of rejoicing but of looking back, I would like to share with you some of my recollections.

In October 1927 I began to …

Temporality And The Ontological Experience In The Works Of Virginia Woolf To The Lighthouse And Edward Al-Kharrat The City Of Saffron, Maggie Hosni Awadalla

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The Absurd In Theory And Dramatic Practice, Wail Abul-Hassan

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Autobiography And The Language Of Memory, Maha Gamil Khairy

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George Eliot Fellowship Annual General Meeting- Treasurer's Report

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

This being my first report to you as Treasurer I would like to begin by thanking my predecessor, Brenda Evans, for her initial instruction into the nature of the job, for her continuing help throughout the year and for her patience in forwarding mail for the time it took to get addresses sorted out. I would also like to thank your Council and especially your Secretary, Kathleen, for their help and understanding towards a "new boy".

Turning now to the accounts, you will see that I have made some changes to the presentation. In particular, at the left hand side …

The Beach Scene In James Joyce's Novel A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man & Thomas Mann's Novella Death In Venice, Mona Hamed Sallam

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Review Essay: Charles Dahlberg, The Literature Of Unlikeness, Brenda M. Hosington

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Charles Dahlberg, The Literature of Unlikeness, University Press of New England, 1988.

Review Essay: John Onians, Bearers Of Meaning: The Classical Orders In Antiquity, The Middle Ages, And The Renaissance, John F. Moffitt

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John Onians, Bearers of Meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, Princeton University Press, 1988.

Narrative Description In Marco Polo's Travels: A Nonfictional Application Of Bakhtin's Chronotope, Ute Margarete Saine

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Throughout the text of Marco Polo's Devisement du monde, the reader is repeatedly enjoined to believe the narration. Such a captatio benevolantiae – the rhetorical convention inviting reader interest – typically takes the form of assertions, such as "I am telling nothing but the truth"; "Everybody ought too believe this"; "This is how it was"; "This is how Marco Polo saw it," and the like. The narrator even proposes to uphold the sophisticated distinction between eyewitness information, gathered firsthand, and accounts obtained from others:

We will set down things seen as seen, things heard as heard, so that our …

Review Essay: Frances A. Yates, The French Academies Of The Sixteenth Century, De Lamar Jensen

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Frances A. Yates, The French Academies of the Sixteenth Century, Routledge, 1988.

Review Essay: James R. Banker, Death In The Community: Memorialization And Confraternities In An Italian Commune In The Late Middle Ages, Dennis Romano

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James R. Banker, Death in the Community: Memorialization and Confraternities in an Italian Commune in the Late Middle Ages, University of Georgia Press, 1988.

Review Essay: A. J. Pollard, The Wars Of The Roses, K. G. Madison

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A. J. Pollard, The Wars of the Roses, St. Martin's Press, 1988.

Review Essay: John Cummins, The Hound And The Hawk: The Art Of Medieval Hunting, Melanie V. Shirk

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John Cummins, The Hound and the Hawk: The Art of Medieval Hunting, St. Martin's Press, 1988.

Review Essay: A. F. Allison And D. M. Rogers, The Contemporary Printed Literature Of The English Counter-Reformation Between 1558 And 1640, Vol. 1 Of Works In Languages Other Than English, Eugene R. Cunnar

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A. F. Allison and D. M. Rogers, The Contemporary Printed Literature of the English Counter-Reformation between 1558 and 1640, Vol. 1 of Works in Languages Other Than English, Gower Publishing/Scholar Press, 1989.

John O'Malley, ed., Catholicism in Early Modern History: A Guide to Research, Center for Reformation Research, 1988.

An Airborne Rescuer From The North In El Paso: "Ruggiero" Or "Perseus"? "Hippogriff" Or "Horse"?, John F. Moffitt

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I. A Question of Procedure

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Chaucer's Sense Of An Ending, Colleen Donnelly

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The problem of closure plagued Chaucer throughout his career, and critics have continued to point out his 'inability" to end or finish many of his poems. This lack of closure often frustrates the casual reader and perplexes the serious scholar, leaving both to wonder if Chaucer was incapable of bringing his poems to an end or if he simply intended to tease his audience with such inconclusiveness. Neither answer is quite satisfactory. To understand that this inconclusiveness was deliberately created by Chaucer the master poet, and not by Chaucer resignedly handing the pen over to the befuddled persona whoo records …

Exemplarity And The Interpretive Frame In Marguerite De Navarre's Heptaméron, V. Stanley Benfell

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Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron is one of the many works that have fallen prey to the contemporary fascination with indeterminacy and the poetics of failure. Increasingly, critics are writing of the "ambiguity" of the novella collection and the lack of narrative resolve that seems to characterize both the novellas and the discussions by the "devisants" that surround the novellas. My purpose in this essay is to contest this view. I intend to show that from a historical perspective, when the Heptaméron is seen in the light of the pervasive rhetorical concerns of late Renaissance writers, the prevailing critical view is …

The Similar Complementarity Of Othello, Maurice Hunt

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Certainly the argument that the principle of complementarity illuminates Othello is nothing new in Shakespeare studies. Over twenty years ago, Norman Rabkin, using an analogy from modern physics, described Shakespeare's characters and motifs as composing complementary wholes. The following excerpt accurately represents his reading of Othello's character: "He is what he is by virtue of what he is not. And what he is not, what he excludes from himself, rises quickly to the surface in the person of Iago. Whatever formulations we make about it, each reader senses the intimacy of the relationship between these mighty opposites, the degree to …

Review Essay: Henry Ansgar Kelly, Tragedy And Comedy From Dante To Pseudo-Dante, Madison U. Sowell

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Henry Ansgar Kelly, Tragedy and Comedy from Dante to Pseudo-Dante, University of California Press, 1989.

Review Essay: Michael Richter, Medieval Ireland: The Enduring Tradition, Kristine T. Utterback

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Michael Richter, Medieval Ireland: The Enduring Tradition, St. Martin's Press, 1988.

Review Essay: Guillaume De Machaut, Le Jugement Du Roy De Brehaigne And Remède De Fortune, Josette Britte-Ashford

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Guillaume de Machaut, Le jugement du roy de Brehaigne and Remède de fortune, ed. James I. Wimsatt and William W. Kibler, The Chaucer Library, University of Georgia Press, 1988.

Review Essay: Suzanne Noffke, O.P., Trans., The Letters Of St. Catherine Of Sienna, Vol. 1, Francis X. Hartigan

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Suzanne Noffke, O.P., trans., The Letters of St. Catherine of Siena, Vol. 1, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1988.

Review Essay: David Nicholas, The Van Arteveldes Of Ghent: The Varieties Of Vendetta And The Hero In History, Kelly Devries

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David Nicholas, The Van Arteveldes of Ghent: The Varieties of Vendetta and the Hero in History, Cornell University Press, 1988.

Review Essay: Julian N. Wasserman And Lois Roney, Eds., Sign Sentence Discourse: Language In Medieval Thought And Literature, John R. Rosenberg

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Julian N. Wasserman and Lois Roney, eds., Sign Sentence Discourse: Language in Medieval Though and Literature, Syracuse University Press, 1989.

Review Essay: Joseph Ratzinger, Eschatology: Death And Eternal Life, Vol. 9 Of Dogmatic Theology, Janine Marie Idziak

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Joseph Ratzinger, Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life, Vol. 9 of Dogmatic Theology, by Johann Auer and Joseph Ratzinger, trans. Michael Waldstein, Catholic University of America Press, 1988.

Review Essay: Joanne S. Norman, Metamorphoses Of An Allegory: The Iconography Of The Psychomachia In Medieval Art, Steven Max Miller

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Joanne S. Norman, Metamorphoses of an Allegory: The Iconography of the Psychomachia in Medieval Art, Peter Lang, 1988.